Books with author Judy Balchin

One hundred lives and accounts of astonishing discoveries, encompassing all the categories of science-from cosmology to subatomic particles and the Internet. By looking at one hundred scientists from the perspectives of both individual biography and scientific accomplishment, Science beautifully illustrates how simple questions and observations can lead to discoveries that radically alter life in the world and our comprehension not only of the natural world but of the cosmos, the body, and the mind as well. Science thereby presents a picture of scientific exploration and discovery that takes observation and method as well as imagination and sheer chance into account. By evaluating the discoveries that have changed life over the past 2,500 years, each two-page biography that makes up Science succeeds in assessing how and why each of the one hundred lives presented led to significant changes in our world.

Packed with stunning ideas and instructions for many different crafts and activities, each book in this series contains everything needed for these craft projects—necessary materials, techniques required to build up skills, and specially selected projects showing how to create a range of decorative and useful items. Featuring crafts inspired both by past and contemporary styles, these books have colorful, step-by-step photos to illustrate every stage of the projects that ues materials that are inexpensive and easy to find. Step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instructions show how to use collage techniques to make 10 bright and beautiful pictures, from shimmering sequin butterflies and a Roman dolphin mosaic to a sunflower with real seeds, an Egyptian dog, and a junk collage truck. This book is filled with inspiration and creative fun.

One hundred lives and accounts of astonishing discoveries, encompassing all the categories of science-from cosmology to subatomic particles and the Internet.By looking at one hundred scientists from the perspectives of both individual biography and scientific accomplishment, Science beautifully illustrates how simple questions and observations can lead to discoveries that radically alter life in the world and our comprehension not only of the natural world but of the cosmos, the body, and the mind as well. Science thereby presents a picture of scientific exploration and discovery that takes observation and method as well as imagination and sheer chance into account. By evaluating the discoveries that have changed life over the past 2,500 years, each two-page biography that makes up Science succeeds in assessing how and why each of the one hundred lives presented led to significant changes in our world."Balchin has produced a compact, highly readable panorama of two and a half millennia of science, who created most of it, and how it has shaped our lives and culture." --Science Books & Film

To be alive today is to be confronted by the products of science--from aspirin, refrigeration, electric light and the telephone, to the airplane and the computer--to name just a few. In addition to beneficial medicines and life enhancing discoveries, however, scientific research also has led to many dangerous developments, such as the machine gun and the atom bomb. Science explores all of these, telling the story of how observation and testing have changed daily life over the past 2500 years, along with how we understand the world, the cosmos, the body, and the mind. What is most fascinating for students first learning about scientific discovery, and what this book highlights so beautifully through presenting individual scientists, is the way in which simple observation--such as watching the weather, or an object fall--leads to a discovery that radically alters life in the world and our comprehension of how the natural world works. An engaging and clearly explained book, full of pertinent quotations and anecdotes, Science tells a compelling story, inviting its readers to pursue its subject further.